She also proposes that boards shift their focus from oversight to foresight, a theme that Jeff Dekagna will build on.

Hi, this is Liz Scott, CEO of Writer Strategies.

A healthier nonprofit sector, I think, starts with more inclusion and more effective board governance.

Traditional boards often suffer from homogeneity with members being friends or colleagues or other familiar faces, which ultimately limits diversity and innovation.

To create a healthier nonprofit sector, we need to leverage organizational network theory and stakeholder mapping.

Let me start with organizational network theory.

That's not a concept most people are familiar with.

you have to start by telling us alexandra's story i

am always happy to my daughter alex was diagnosed two days before she turned one with neuroblastoma which is a pediatric tumor She would go on to fight cancer the rest of her life.

She went through two years of surgeries, the known cures via chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and she never went into full remission.

At that point, we were told there really were not very many options, but there were some.

And one of those options was what's called MIBG therapy or MIBG treatment.

And this was at the time in 1999. a really exciting idea, still pretty exciting, but it was very targeted.

So neuroblastoma cells like soak up this radioactive iodine and not a lot of other places in the body do.

A couple of them must stand out to you.